Buff

//bʌf//

Synonyms for "buff" (314 found)

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Closest matches (63)

Strong matches (94)

Related words (157)

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Translations

64 translations across 20 languages.

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Bulgarian

1 entries
  • нацепен adj (unusually muscular)

Chinese Mandarin

3 entries
  • 增益 verb (to make something stronger)
  • 抛光 verb (to polish and make shiny)
  • 擦亮 verb (to polish and make shiny)

Dutch

2 entries
  • liefhebber noun (a person who is very interested in a particular subject)
  • oppoetsen verb (to polish and make shiny)

Esperanto

1 entries
  • alloga adj (physically attractive)

Finnish

4 entries
  • lihaksikas adj (unusually muscular)
  • ruskeankeltainen adj (of the color of buff leather, a brownish yellow)
  • friikki noun (a person who is very interested in a particular subject)
  • ruskeankeltainen noun (a brownish yellow colour)

French

4 entries
  • attirant adj (physically attractive)
  • balèze adj (unusually muscular)
  • baraqué adj (unusually muscular)
  • chamois adj (of the color of buff leather, a brownish yellow)

German

4 entries
  • attraktiv adj (physically attractive)
  • durchtrainiert adj (unusually muscular)
  • gut aussehend adj (physically attractive)
  • muskulös adj (unusually muscular)

Hungarian

1 entries
  • sárgásbarna noun (a brownish yellow colour)

Indonesian

1 entries
  • bungalan noun (a brownish yellow colour)

Irish

1 entries
  • díograiseoir noun (a person who is very interested in a particular subject)

Italian

1 entries
  • attraente adj (physically attractive)

Japanese

2 entries
  • ムキムキ adj (unusually muscular)
  • バフ verb (to make something stronger)

Māori

3 entries
  • mangaeka adj (of the color of buff leather, a brownish yellow)
  • aumiri verb (to polish and make shiny)
  • whakakanapa verb (to polish and make shiny)

Ottoman Turkish

1 entries
  • دوه توكی noun (a brownish yellow colour)

Portuguese

2 entries
  • atraente adj (physically attractive)
  • bombado adj (unusually muscular)

Russian

1 entries
  • полирова́ть verb (to polish and make shiny)

Slovak

1 entries
  • vyleštiť vyblýskať verb (to polish and make shiny)

Spanish

4 entries
  • atrayente adj (physically attractive)
  • fisicudo adj (unusually muscular)
  • fornido adj (unusually muscular)
  • papeado adj (unusually muscular)

Swedish

4 entries
  • biffig adj (unusually muscular)
  • entusiast noun (a person who is very interested in a particular subject)
  • fantast noun (a person who is very interested in a particular subject)
  • kyllerfärg noun (a brownish yellow colour)

Ukrainian

1 entries
  • полірува́ти verb (to polish and make shiny)

Sample sentences

39 total sentences available.

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That class got a needed buff.

Source: slang_seed

Let's play a game of blind man's buff.

Source: tatoeba (576633)

He's a movie buff.

Source: tatoeba (1610598)

You’re buff!

Source: tatoeba (3446603)

Showing 4 of 39 available sentences.

Data sourced from Wiktionary, WordNet, CMU, and other open linguistic databases. Updated March 2026.